Former CIA Director Goss sits down with NBC2

Former CIA Director Goss lives on Sanibel Island, but for two years he had one prime target - to take out Osama bin Laden. He's got strong feelings about global threats and he shared those exclusively with NBC2's Chief Political Correspondent Chad Oliver.

It's been eight years since George W. Bush appointed Porter Goss as CIA director. And Goss says he still reads intelligence reports on a daily basis.

"We really are a nation at war. There's something going on and there's something to be concerned about," he said.

This week, U.S. officials released some of the documents obtained in that risky raid in Pakistan.

Goss says those documents are more important than Osama bin Laden's body. And he says he takes issue with President Obama's use of the one-year anniversary - calling it theatrical.

"I am just destroyed to see the sources and methods of how we work to link up with our special forces and our intelligence operatives being discussed publicly so not only our public knows it - which is fine as far as I'm concerned - but the whole world knows it and that means the enemy knows it," Goss said.

He says even though bin Laden is dead, the network of terrorism is still alive.

"We are in the target zone there's just on question. The capabilities to get to the target to do something are problematic. But the home-grown global terrorism aspect is very, very real," Goss said.

Goss is six years removed from office and says he is still very passionate about global security.

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